Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-11-05
GENERAL NEWS.

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The physicians In attendance hav
some hopes Of saving the arm O
I Willie Boon, the youth who had hi
arm crushed at Erin last week, Will
attempting to couple some cars o.
the railroad.
A novel exhibition in the shape O
n horseback sword contest between
Sergeant Mcclure, the English cham
pion, and Sergeant Walsh the Amer
can champion, came off at baseball
park, Louisville, Ky, on Monday
AT the thirteenth round the Ameri
can champion fell to the ground, anc
the English champion was declared
victor. The day was rainy, and only
400 spectators witnessed the combat
Alive year old child mysteriously
disappeared from Louisville the
other day. Frances hammers is hel
name, and she disappeared from 1901
/ Preston street, where Frank Lam.
mers, her father, resided.
Under an amendment to the Mex.
lean constitution just adopted, a
President is now eligible to n 81 cond
term in that republic.
1t is rumored that the Rev. Charles
A. Berry, of the Queen street Con
gregational church, in Wolverhamp-
ton, England has been rendered the
lpulpis IN Brooklyn, vacated by the
death Of the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, and that he has deferred
acceptance until he can go home and
see his wife about il.
Democratic prospects are brighten
ing in old Virginia, and the prob
ability fattering for the mother of
presidents to be redeemed from the
rule of such Barnacles as Malone
and Riddleberger.
A better writer from Springfield.
Ill.,, said by the Courier-Jonrnal t.
be well posted, claims that Illinois Is
about to wheel into the Democratic
ranks again where she belonged in
the days of Stephen A. Douglass,
before the war. We hope his
prophecy may prove true.
An Italian fiend, named John
Basso, fatally stabbed lady named
Mrs. Lizzie Adams in the back i'm
Pittsburg the other day. An Amer
lean citizen would not do such a
thing.
The Courler-Journal. places itself
beyond the pale of respectable Jour
nalism by perpetrating the following
atrocious pun: "The Tennessee hay
crop is in no way affected BY the
failure Of the Timothy brothers"
Quoting from the Albany Journal
that a Bridgeport woman IS a believer
in the blue glass theory, the New
York Sun adds: "She ought to
change and adopt the Blue Grass the
DRY In that blissful region all the
girls are beautiful, and before they
are twenty every one of them is mar
ried to the man she loves best.
Bridgeport is dull and hopeless in
Mr.. w. A. SETTLE of GAINESVILLE,
has been here during the week on
business connected with the ice fac
tory. Columbia Herald.
THE anarchists and all future
cranks from Europe should be given
a forcible lesson causing them to real
ize the fact that, although this is a
free country in the broadest sense of
the word, it is freedom protecting
the right of personal liberty, the
right Of personal security, and the
right of private property and
that in the protection of these the
unalienable rights of man." the
law is supreme and may not be re-
sisted with impunity. The lives of a
few unfortunate fanatics are of little
moment compared with the estab
ishment and universal recognition
IF this all important principle.
THE Athens Post claims to be the
oldest paper in the State. 1t com.
nenced its career in 1913. We have.
n our office, a framed copy of the
GAINESVILLE CHRONICLE, printed in
larksville, by Wells & PEBBLES, Jan.
Il, 1918, just nine years after the
PAPER was first established and with
cut q short interval it has been pub
ished ever since. We have our
elves been personally familiar
With 1t ever since the year
1856, and there has been no in
erval in its publication since that
inc. Without any desire to deprive
he Post of its high character, and
ong established reputation, we claim
0 antedate it by at least 80 years.
'ick you fiints and try it again Bro.
wins.
CASHIER JACKSON Of the Sub.
treasury at New York, has emigra-
eel and Joined the exiled throng of
etired American financiers in II
). Ms diminion of Canada. His
ecounts fail to balance to the modest
title tune of $4,000.
WHATEVER may be said of the
biquitous and inevitable POwderly.
is courageous, and persistent refusal
lead dead-beats and anarchists is
cOmmendahIa and nraisa-